Challenge Competition Aimed at Advancing Equitable Uptake of Preventive Services

AHRQ’s new challenge competition will award $440,000 to prize winners who create data visualizations to identify inequities in the receipt of preventive services, better understand underlying factors, and develop novel approaches to address health equity in clinical preventative services.

Proposals are encouraged from teams partnering with health systems in in medically underserved areas/populations. In the first phase, competitors will describe the research team, the data visualization(s), possible drivers of disparities, and potential interventions to address care gaps. The second phase requires competitors to develop and deploy the visualization and intervention(s) across a participating health system. The first-place winner will receive $150,000.

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